100 Psyche [August 



rugae. Gaster smooth and very shining. Coxee very globular; 

 femora only slightly swollen; four posterior tibiae without spurs. 

 Whole body, including the antennal scapes and legs bristling with 

 long, yellowish, delicate and moderately abundant hairs. Length 

 4.5-5 mm. 



"Noumea (New Caledonia)." 



2. Lordomyrma furcifera Emery. 

 (Fig. 1.) 

 Termeszetr. Fuzetek 20, 1897, p. 591, PI. 15, Figs. 32, 33. ^ . 



'^Worker. Fuscopiceous; mouth, antennae, posterior half of 

 thorax, femora, tarsi, petiole and ventral surface of gaster reddish 

 ferruginous, very shining; smooth, sparsely covered with minute 



Figure 1. Lordomyrma furcifera Emery (after Emery) worker; a, thorax and 

 abdomen in profile; h, head, dorsal view. 



punctures bearing rather stout, fuscous hairs. Head oblong, with 

 subparallel sides, broadly rounded behind. Eyes in front of the 

 middle of the sides of the head. Cheeks striated. Frontal carinse 

 delicately prolonged backward, f the length of the head, forming 

 the inner borders of broad, shallow antennal scrobes which are 

 open behind but bounded externally by a delicate carina. Clypeus 

 bicarinate in the middle, its anterior border arcuately produced. 

 Mandibles smooth, elongate triangular, with oblique apical mar- 

 gin, bidentate at the tip, irregularly denticulate basally. Anten- 

 nal scapes reaching beyond the frontal carinse but not to the pos- 

 terior corners of the head; scape stout; club elongate, moderately 

 thick, penultimate joint about half again as long as the ante- 

 penultimate, the last joint as long as the two preceding together 



